The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-05-05
TOO LATE.

III YOU 80 away anu leI me Gle
in peace?2
mo! will not 90 away, and you
cannot die in peace while your iniquit-
Gus will exists. Destroy that. make
one that gives Mary her rightful in
heritance, and will 90 away. to the
other end of the world if YOU will"
And leave me to the servants?"
Not unless YOU desire it. Uncle
Hugh, dear; dear uncle, do listen to
me-"
How can help it? Here you have
me, nailed to my armchair, unable to
leave it, and you keep up one eternal
song that is never out of my ears"
Because / cannot take what you
would give me, and Mary will never
take it from me. You have no right to
Will it to me. 1t is hers.
Hers, indeed, 1t is miner
But how did it become yoursP
Your wife, Mary's mother left YOU her
entire fortune. Do you suppose she
would have done so if she had not
trusted YOU SO entirely to do what was
right by her child?'
Mary had no business to marry a
man hate.
Yes, she had, if he was the man she
loved,
4 hate him. was the fierce reply,
''as | hated his father wears AGO. You
ask me too much, Robert, when you
ask me to make rich man Of Stephen
Hailetl 5 son. You do not understand
how for years Inat man. my trusted,
confidential friend, was using nv faith
in him TO undermine my business and
work nay ruin. because-thc woman he
loved loved me. Had | guessed that it
was his son Mary would meet at her
Aunt Maria's, ! would never have con-
sented TO her going to Birmingham.
And when it was too late to influence
her, | gave her the choice between
Walter Hallett and her father, and she
made her own selection"
But tyranny should not 90 beyond
the grave. You may live for years,
but beg you to let your anger die
when you do. 1t cannot harm YOU. in
the grave, to let even Stephen Hallett's
son have the money that ought by
every right to be Mary's"
II viii not. | never will! Go
away"
He was so fierce, so excited. that
Robert obeyed him, and went to his
! own room. He was not a young man
something over forty-this cham.
| piOn of his cousins right, never was he
a rich man, although so anxious TO
throw away a handsome legacy. But
he was a good man, one who went
! over to the Highest for strength and
guidance; and he loved his cousin
with the love that was stronger if it
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love was returned, for the pretty win
ming maiden of ten years before, then
just stepping from girlhood to woman
hood, had given him the frank, tender
affection of sister. But another had
won Mary Bradley's heart, and while
| her father rayed over her infatuation
for her lover, Robert wakened from his
dream of happiness.
1t was the story so often told, of
child who, having had every whim
gratiticd from infancy, having been
spoiled. petted. indulged in the most
trihiag wish, is suddenly crossed in
the strongest desire of her life. That
her father should say mo" TO her never
| entered Mary Bradley's mind, until she
| read the furious reply that answered
Walter Hallett'S manly letter Of love
and request for fathers sanction to
his engagement. 1t had been many
years since the breach between Hugh
Bradley and Stephen Hallett, and the
young men knew nothing Of any form
er intimacy. The grave had closed
over his father while he was but child,
and no record of the friendship be-
trayed had come to him. If it had.
he would have been told the other side OF
the story, that Bradley had won away
Stephen HalletJ's promised wife. for
She was actually engaged to Stephen.
| when her heart turned traitor to her
word, and her love was given to Hugh
| Bradley.
Then, in hot revenge. the deserted
lover used the confidence reposed in
| him. and brought pecuniary ruin on his
old friend, so crippling him that he
lost courage, and was willing. when
his debts were paid to give up all
business and live on his wifes income.
And not until Mary had given her
love past recall was the old wrong
brought forward to hurl at her lover.
They were young, in love and hoped
for fopgiv eness, AID SO one srtnshiny